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Laird Scranton | Comparative Cosmology, Gobekli Tepe, & The Spirit World
Ritual Burial of Sites, Skara Brae and Symbolic Departure
Ancient sites like Göbekli Tepe and Skara Brae were deliberately buried to signal the completion of their instructional purpose and to preserve them for a future technological audience. Scranton compares this to the Jewish tradition of covering a Torah scroll in an Ark after a lesson. At Skara Brae, the inhabitants left specific symbolic markers, such as animal tibias and deer carcasses, which linguistically translate to "departing under duress," providing a coded explanation for their exit.